2020 · animation · action · horror
DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger
Directed by Bruce Timm15m2020
Jess joins her friends at a party in a dilapidated mansion hosted by the mysterious Seth. When odd things begin to happen to Jess and her friends, the Phantom Stranger intervenes to save her from a dreary fate.
Our read: DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (2020) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · action · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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